On May 13, 2024, officers Ashley Frey and Madeline Ambrose pulled over a Honda Civic with expired tags near Bierce Avenue and South Torrence Street at around 10 p.m.
During the traffic stop, Still began reaching for a backpack on the floor of the car, so Frey asked him to step outside, according to Dayton Municipal Court documents.
Police camera footage shows one of the officers try to open the driver’s door when Still pulls it shut and says “Ma’am I’m not going to do that.”
Both officers then opened the door and Frey reached across Still to unlatch his seat belt, court records said, but as she did so Still tried to accelerate away.
Video shows Frey and Still struggle with each other while trying to control the car. The car then crashed into a parked pickup truck, the affidavit said, which closed the door and shut Frey inside.
Ambrose ran to the car and tried to open the passenger door, but it was locked, the affidavit said. The car briefly backed up then stopped, and Ambrose was able to break the passenger window.
The car accelerated forward again and crashed into a tree, deploying the airbags.
Still got out and fled on foot, with officers trying and failing to use a Taser on him.
While running, Still dropped a bag that he later told detectives had cocaine in it, the affidavit said, and he was later found and arrested by two other officers under a handicap ramp in a yard.
A resident’s dog had reported bitten him as he fled.
Frey was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, where she was treated and released. Still was also taken to the hospital before being transported to the Montgomery County Jail.
Still claimed that he was shot at, though police reports said no shots were fired.
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